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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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Change Love Myself Reason Time
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Action Fear Yourself
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Walk Yourself
That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Peace Place Yourself
I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Myself Word Writing
Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Job Laugh Listen
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Missing Start Yourself
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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God Myself Respect Sick
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Funny Understand
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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One Liner Philosophy
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Choice Material Poet True
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Beautiful History Learning Poetry Yourself
I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Feeling Myself Run
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Listen Music Myself Reading
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Empty Expression Face Herself

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